Intel Pentium 4 6xx and 3.73EE: Favoring Features Over Performance
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on February 21, 2005 6:15 AM EST- Posted in
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Multitasking Content Creation
MCC Winstone 2004
Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:
. Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1
. Adobe® Premiere® 6.50
. Macromedia® Director MX 9.0
. Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1
. Microsoft® Windows MediaTM Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
. NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b
. SteinbergTM WaveLabTM 4.0f
As you can see above, Lightwave is part of the MCC Winstone 2004 benchmark suite. As an individual application, Lightwave does manage to get a healthy performance benefit with multithreaded rendering enabled, especially when paired with Hyperthreading enabled CPUs like the Pentium 4s here today. All chips were tested with Lightwave set to spawn 4 threads.
ICC SYSMark 2004
The first category that we will deal with is 3D Content Creation. The tests that make up this benchmark are described below:
"The user renders a 3D model to a bitmap using 3ds max 5.1, while preparing web pages in Dreamweaver MX. Then the user renders a 3D animation in a vector graphics format."
Next, we have 2D Content Creation performance:
"The user uses Premiere 6.5 to create a movie from several raw input movie cuts and sound cuts and starts exporting it. While waiting on this operation, the user imports the rendered image into Photoshop 7.01, modifies it and saves the results. Once the movie is assembled, the user edits it and creates special effects using After Effects 5.5."
The Internet Content Creation suite is rounded up with a Web Publishing performance test:
"The user extracts content from an archive using WinZip 8.1. Meanwhile, he uses Flash MX to open the exported 3D vector graphics file. He modifies it by including other pictures and optimizes it for faster animation. The final movie with the special effects is then compressed using Windows Media Encoder 9 series in a format that can be broadcast over broadband Internet. The web site is given the final touches in Dreamweaver MX and the system is scanned by VirusScan 7.0."
Mozilla + Media Encoder
While AMD dominated in WorldBench 5's Mozilla test, encoding a file using Windows Media Encoder in the background not only makes this test more appreciative of the Pentium 4 but also of Hyper Threading.
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DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
you are correct mike (and you too mjz5):-)
DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
You're in luck -- Anand is writing that one personally. In my opinion he's the best there is at explaining technology so that anyone can understand it.And we've got "better" pics of cell, but they have boxes and text all over them to tell what block does what ... that's the best "clean" cell pic we've got.
mjz5 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
new news!! Nothing new from intel, actually that's not new news :-s...nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
also, in the Cell picture, i count 8 cache areas, is there 8 sub processors with their own cache and then a main processor that controlls all the others with its own cache (the dark blue on the right, while the light blue is the sub processors cache?)MIKE
nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
:-)yea, find a better quality pic of the Cell processor. and please use small words that the small ppl like me can understand especially in the Cell article next week. i look forward to it, but dont want to be all confused like i am on a lot of your high tech articles.
:-D
MIKE
DerekWilson - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
I can only fix 89 broken things at a time :-)anything else need tweaking?
nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
nvm post 3, read this post insteadpage 4 = bottom of page 3... fix it.
I ORDER YOU NOW
MIKE
JustAnAverageGuy - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
It's fun to watch them add the pages one by one :)nourdmrolNMT1 - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
wrong graphs on page 4???MIKE
AtaStrumf - Monday, February 21, 2005 - link
He, he, no first post for all you first posters >;-)